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8 ETHERNET PORTS FOR UNLIMITED CONNECTIVITY TO ALL YOUR DEVICES

Delivering great wireless performance, network security and coverage, the D-Link Wireless N 8-Port Router (DIR-632) is ideal for building a powerful network. Designed to do the heavy-lifting and get your small business humming, 8 ports let you connect just about anything you can imagine, all at once - printers, laptops, desktops, security cameras, servers, storage drives - you name it, the DIR 632 can handle it. It also serves as an excellent home router, since it's ideal for providing wired Internet connectivity for video, music, photos, and documents.

Pros of this hardware

Runs standard version of DD-WRT

Eight (8) wired ports

New Harware. 802.11n WiFi

Easy to install DD-WRT

USB Port

Great range, signal strength and stability

Cons of this hardware

The biggest knock about this router is it's frequent WIFI drops and lockups when using the stock firmware. Installing DD-WRT corrects this isssue.

Wait 2 or 3 minutes for the DIR-632 to flash and do the update. You will see a status page that shows you the progress as it happens. After the flash & update is done, the router will reboot to dd-wrt, and the IP address will have changed to 192.168.1.1. There is no need to reset.

Open http://192.168.1.1/ in web browser. Will probably have to update your IP address (if using static IP) to this subnet to be able to connect. This should open DD-WRT's web interface. Configure DD-WRT as desired.

You're finished! No need to 30/30/30 hard reset, but you can reboot your router after several minutes. (I don't know if it has to build anything in NVRAM, but better safe than sorry.)

How to upgrade with new DD-WRT firmware

Click "browse" button -> select the "dir632a-firmware.bin" file -> click "Upgrade" button. It will take about 2 minutes to upload and write the flash. Your browser will reload and let you know when it is done.

It is probably a good idea to reboot after updating. That's it.

How to reset the Router to initial DD-WRT configuration

If you forget the username or password, or if the configuration becomes really messed up, you can always clear all the non-volitile parameters by doing a 'factory reset'. To do this, with the router already fully booted, press and hold the reset button for 5~6 seconds and release. The router will boot back up and answer to 192.168.1.1 just as if it had just been flashed with DD-WRT.

FTP Access

Once set up, you will be able to access all the mounted partitions by using ftp://192.168.1.1

Serices -> NAS

Enable ProFTPD

Select other settings and then select Save, and then Apply

File Sharing Access

Once set up, you can access your files using Universal Naming Convention (UNC) names; ex. \\192.168.1.1\part1. Storage devices can be format as Fat16, Fat32, NTFS, and Ext2. The Ext3 drive format is not support, and will not mount.

Serices -> NAS

Add Share

Select the Share's Path, enter and name, and indicate is it's public or not. If it's pubic you do not have to add users.

Repeat 2 and 3 for each share

Select Save, and then Apply

If you plan to add user, do so after adding the shares.

USB Printing

What follows are the steps needs to use printer devices connected to the routers USB port.

Using the printer in Windows 7

select Create a new port, and choose Type of port: Standard TCP/IP Port. Click Next

Enter the IP address or your router: 192.168.1.1. If you like you can give the port a name.

UNCHECK the checkbox to Query the printer and automatically select a driver use. Click Next. Now wait until the detection is done. It will say that the device is not found. Don't despair

Choose Custom and then click Settings

Make sure that Protocol Raw is selected and Port 9100 is entered. That will be proposed.

Leave all other settings also as they were and click OK

Click Next.

Choose the printer driver for your printer, then click Next

Give your printer a name, , then click Next

You don't have to share the printer. click Next

You can set it as default printer if your would like.

Click Finish

Don't forget that your routers default address is 192.168.1.1 and its port is 9100

Common Problems

Wireless Security WPA2 does not work with i Touches. Use WPA instead with AES or TKIP+AES encryption.

When mounting USB devices, an odd message is produced indicating Status: Not mounted. This can be ignored.

Can only load on the NA (North American) versions of the router. A trouble ticket has been created. For AP (Asia Pacific) countries and WW (Europe etc.) instructions are available in the forum on how to create a firmware version that will load on your router.